Elon Musk/Tesla

[Beany]

I mean, if they are, it took people long enough. "Was dropped on their head a lot, like really a lot, as a child" long enough.

[Jobbo]

I can see a use case for this Roadster tech - a gentle landing if you accidentally drive your car off a pier or cliff or whatever. There seem to have been a few instances of that this year, sadly. So really the target market should be cars driven by the elderly or who mix up the brake and accelerator. Not a sports car.

[integrale_evo]

You know those air blasters they have in food factories to blast a burnt crisp off the conveyor? They should turn the blasters into those to gently push any pedestrians or cyclists about to get driven into gently out of the way

[Matty]

[Mito Man]

Gets better the more people notice new things


Where’s the brakes?

The booster pipe work going across the door opening

[Simon]

This is why it has wheel covers on the 'jumping' car - to hide part of the fact that it's not a complete car.

[integrale_evo]

Pretty minor issues compared to the entire interior being an air tank.

I must admit, that frame looks far more car like that I was expecting for the stunt.

[jamcg]

[Beany]

So you've given Tesla an interest free $250,000 for ten years. I wonder how many other people did that, and how much interest that saved Tesla over a business loan or other corporate finance/fundraising?

I also wonder how much they would have made if they'd just wanged that $250,000 in the S&P 500. I'd guess at least double given it's gone from about 2500 in 2017 to near 8000 now, probably more if you reinvest it occasionally, etc.

[integrale_evo]

One of the comments on the post says if he’d put it into Tesla stock it would be worth around 4.5M today.

[DeskJockey]

How stupid can you get? Or, is he so rich he can forget he spaffed that much on a deposit?

[Sundayjumper]

$250k is the new deposit, not the one ten years ago ?

[Jobbo]

He won’t have to take delivery of this one either, I suspect.

As for them taking into account the time value of money, perhaps he should have taken that into account before he gave Tesla $250,000 nine years ago

[Mito Man]

Assuming they would have done something intelligent with the money if not for the reservation is a mighty brave assumption.
If anything Elon saved them from crippling depreciation by never making the thing

[Rich B]

i think at this stage, “loan” is the best case scenario for his $250k. What an idiot.

[Beany]

Just for reference, Musk is now saying the car will be sentient.

He's just making shit up now.

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Also, technically if it's sentient and being forced to perform actions against it's will, that's technically slavery, which is very on brand for Musk.

[jamcg]

This clause seems fine to me, here Tesla take my money

[Simon]

'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me'.

I hope every deposit payer gets cucked.

[DaveE]

Fuck anyone dumb enough to fall for any of Musk's bullshit

He now has a LONG history of starting things that are never delivered/completed - ANYONE believing anything he says now is just stupid

[Rich B]

Greedy people trying to get a premium car to flip get done over by even greedier person. Boo fucking hoo.